Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)

cool: "The July 16 explosion was large enough for the US Geological Survey (USGS) to have reported a 3.7 magnitude earthquake about 168 kilometers east northeast of Daytona Beach Shores, Florida — an area confirmed by the Navy to be within the region where the Jackson test took place."
LCS Tests ‘Exceptionally Well’ in Shock Trials
A ten-thousand-pound explosive charge set off close to the littoral combat ship (LCS) Jackson caused minimal shipboard damage, the US Navy said today, and the ship is back at Mayport, Florida, for more detailed examination.

“The ship performed exceptionally well, sustaining minimal damage and returned to port under her own power,” the Navy said in a statement.

The July 16 test was the third and last Full Scale Shock Trial (FSST) to be performed on the Jackson, which had been outfitted with around 260 sensors and gauges to measure the effects of the explosion on the ship and many pieces of on-board equipment.

Earlier tests were carried out June 10 and June 22. A 10,000-pound charge was used in each of those tests as well, with the charge being moved closer to the ship with each test.

The Jackson is an all-aluminum trimaran, the first Independence-class variant and the first LCS to undergo FSSTs. The Milwaukee, of the steel-hulled Freedom class, is being prepared for another series of FSSTs to begin in August and continue into September.

Unofficially, the Jackson has been reported to have performed better than expected during the trials, in many cases meeting or exceeding modeling predictions done prior to the Florida tests.

While the Navy routinely performs FSSTs on all its combat ship designs, the timing of these tests came earlier than scheduled, driven by complaints about LCS survivability from Michael Gilmore, director of the Pentagon’s Office of Test and Evaluation. Gilmore had been expected to be aboard the Jackson for the last test, but his office confirmed he did not attend.

But the Jackson’s crew and dozens of technical representatives and observers from interested commands and offices — including DOT&E — were aboard.

The July 16 explosion was large enough for the US Geological Survey (USGS) to have reported a 3.7 magnitude earthquake about 168 kilometers east northeast of Daytona Beach Shores, Florida — an area confirmed by the Navy to be within the region where the Jackson test took place. The report set off a flurry of media reports about a possible connection with the LCS tests.

The Navy did not confirm the connection but, in its statement, noted “there were reports of increased seismic activity around the time of the test.”

On Tuesday, the USGS reclassified the event as an “experimental explosion.”
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FORBIN

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With last GAO report i have udapted with deliveries dates approximatives, the 26 first for 2021.

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navyreco

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Video: USS Coronado (LCS 4) Launches Harpoon Anti-ship Missile for the 1st Time
USS Coronado (LCS 4), an Independence-class littoral combat ship, launched a Harpoon Block 1C anti-ship missile during RIMPAC 2016, the world's largest international maritime exercise current taking place off Hawai.
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Video: USS Coronado (LCS 4) Launches Harpoon Anti-ship Missile for the 1st Time
the definition of success:
“So it wasn’t a hit,” he said, but the test objectives were successfully achieved.
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RIMPAC 2016: LCS-4 Exercises With Chinese Navy Ahead Of First Deployment To Asia
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as I can see, navyreco's wording is careful :)
 
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LCS Fort Worth’s Return Journey Brightens
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The month-long trans-Pacific journey isn’t expected to begin until mid or late August.
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The official command report on the mishap is still being reviewed by the Pacific Fleet, Ramsden said, adding that a redacted version is expected to be released “within weeks.”
 

dtulsa

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the definition of success:
“So it wasn’t a hit,” he said, but the test objectives were successfully achieved.
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as I can see, navyreco's wording is careful :)
Well it looks like everything went well except the missile decided it didn't want to find the target but that's not really the ships fault I remember the NSM fired from the CORO. hit its target and it wasn't even linked to the ships system just used basic guidance so we shall see what the NSM does when its turn to FLY and remember the NSM and JSM are inter changeable to give a dual capacity of land and ship attack HUM
 

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PACIFIC OCEAN (July 19, 2016) USS Coronado (LCS 4), an Independence-variant littoral combat ship, launches the first over-the-horizon missile engagement using a Harpoon Block 1C missile. Twenty-six nations, 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Bryce Hadley/Released)

THAT is what we have been waiting for. 'Bout time.

The fact there was not a "hit" is, IMHO, not as critical at this point as the fact that the US N is demonstrating its firm intent to up arm these vessels as they should have been armed to begin with. They will work all of the targeting issues out...yes they will.
 
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